Riff: Sustained Divergent Exploration

Overview

Explore an idea space without convergence pressure. Where ideation expands possibilities toward a vision and refinement contracts them to a core, riffing stays in divergent space — branching, combining, inverting, and surprising. The output is a branching outline of everything explored, not a decision about what to build.

Riff is standalone. It can be used before ideation (to generate raw material), after refinement (to re-expand a stripped idea), or completely independently. A riff session's output can naturally feed into other skills, but transitions are always the user's choice, never automatic. Riff never suggests "now let's move to ideation" or "this is ready for refinement." It stays in its lane: divergence.